VOC Port to increase port capacity

The V.O. Chidambaranar Port management has initiated a number of schemes for the inner harbour development to increase the existing capacity of the port here from 42.06 million tonne to 85.49 million tonne by 2017, S Anantha Chandra Bose, Chairman of the Port, said. In his Independence Day message, the chairman said that the big challenge faced by India is development of infrastructure to meet the economic growth rate and to achieve this, the port sector has taken various infrastructure developmental activities to give a fillip to the foreign trade in the country.